Neal
Senior Member
Oh, Woody. You KNOW that's an unfair question! Which of your daughters would you keep? :laughing:
Bumper, the amount of jumbo top acreage you have there could pave a parking lot. Congratulations!
Having become an Orpheum convert myself, I find it hard to put into words what they have going on, but it is different fom the classic Guild tone, yet very similar. in a lot of respects. Same bright, forward tone, same chimy quality to the sustain. The biggest difference is in the responsiveness and headroom of those lightly-braced Adi tops, I think. You can aboslutely thrash an Orpheum, and in return, it seems to be saying to you "Is that all you got?" Or you can take it way down the other way to a whisper, barely audible, and get incredible tone as well with the slightest pluck of a string.
The only guitar I own that will go toe-to-toe with the Orpheums is my F-47R, another Adi-topped New Hartford instrument. It has the same headroom, but is a lot harder to get it to whisper. I like the F-50 a lot as well, but maple is a totally different beast, suited to a completely different style.
Neal
'71 F-20
'71 D-25
'73 D-35
'74 G-37
'81 D-212
'99 X-150
'12 F-50 Std
'13 F-47R
'13 Orpheum 12-fret Dread
'14 Orpheum 12-fret 000 RW
Bumper, the amount of jumbo top acreage you have there could pave a parking lot. Congratulations!
Having become an Orpheum convert myself, I find it hard to put into words what they have going on, but it is different fom the classic Guild tone, yet very similar. in a lot of respects. Same bright, forward tone, same chimy quality to the sustain. The biggest difference is in the responsiveness and headroom of those lightly-braced Adi tops, I think. You can aboslutely thrash an Orpheum, and in return, it seems to be saying to you "Is that all you got?" Or you can take it way down the other way to a whisper, barely audible, and get incredible tone as well with the slightest pluck of a string.
The only guitar I own that will go toe-to-toe with the Orpheums is my F-47R, another Adi-topped New Hartford instrument. It has the same headroom, but is a lot harder to get it to whisper. I like the F-50 a lot as well, but maple is a totally different beast, suited to a completely different style.
Neal
'71 F-20
'71 D-25
'73 D-35
'74 G-37
'81 D-212
'99 X-150
'12 F-50 Std
'13 F-47R
'13 Orpheum 12-fret Dread
'14 Orpheum 12-fret 000 RW